Directors Quotes

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

I like to just work with great directors.

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

Directors never give you anything.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

I have worked with some great directors.

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

I worked for a lot of directors.

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

I prefer to work with first-time directors.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

Gotta watch out for directors.

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.